Sentence examples for widened powers from inspiring English sources

Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brother and winner of presidential elections in June, shocked the country by issuing a decree that assumes vastly widened powers for his office, including virtual immunity against judicial oversight.

A forthcoming Justice Bill will also widen powers to seize criminals' assets.

The questions of the day are "How do we save the planet from the climate crisis?" and "What do we do about misogyny, racial profiling and police violence, and homophobic laws?" and "How do we check mass surveillance and the widening power of the state?" and "How do we bring down autocratic, human-rights-abusing regimes without leaving behind chaos and tragedy?" Those are the questions.

Between sights, Mr. Uribe recounted how the drug lord started his career by stealing headstones from cemeteries and reselling them, and how he gradually widened his power base, even holding office in government at one point.

Progressive conservatism is a modern philosophy that is right for an age in which debate is being widened and power is being diffused.

It urged voters to stay away to protest constitutional changes that widened the king's powers.

But so far his biggest reform has been to rewrite the Constitution to widen his powers and lengthen his potential time in office.

Instead of defining sweeping powers more tightly on the face of the bill, the government has taken the opportunity to widen the powers and place them in non-binding codes of practice.

When police stand accused of repressive behaviour in a number of spheres, while neglecting serious crimes including against women, it would be irresponsible to widen their powers.

The government will "widen the powers for representative bodies to act on behalf of their members to challenge grossly unfair payment terms".

Mr Morsi has inserted Brothers as provincial governors and ministerial under-secretaries while seeking to widen his powers of appointment in the courts, the state-owned banks, and the trade unions.